Clarifying a Common Misunderstanding in Reiki Practice In recent years, some Reiki writers have suggested that the essence of Reiki practice is to “forget the self,” discard all thoughts, and realize that there is no practitioner, no patient, and nothing to give or receive during treatment. According to this interpretation, Reiki is not something we…
Most Reiki practitioners have never been taught Reiki meditation. Even students who have practiced Reiki for years often encounter meditation only as relaxation, visualization, or something optional to do before or after hands-on treatment. Historically, this was not the case. In the earliest structure of Reiki training, meditation was one of the primary ways students…
Most Reiki practitioners spend years studying techniques, hand positions, and symbols. What many never encounter is the one document in which Mikao Usui explained Reiki in his own words. That document is called Kokai Denju Setsumei. It is the only written teaching left by Usui. While Reiki training was transmitted directly through practice, initiation, and…
Most of us assume time moves like a river, the past flowing behind us and the future approaching. But if we examine our own experience carefully, we see something different. When you regret the past, you are not entering the past. You are activating memory. When you worry about the future, you are not entering…
Most of us assume time moves like a river, the past flowing behind us and the future approaching. But if we examine our own experience carefully, we see something different. When you regret the past, you are not entering the past. You are activating memory. When you worry about the future, you are not entering…
In Usui Sensei’s, Shinshin Kaizen Usui Reiki Ryoho — “Usui Reiki Healing Method for the Improvement of Mind and Body”( I心身改善臼井靈氣療法) — there are practices that feel like they cut straight to the heart of what this work is really about. Reiji-ho is one of them. The name itself (霊示法) translates roughly to “the method…
In Reiki, self-treatment is not optional. It is foundational. Within Koshin Reiki as transmitted by Brian Brunius, Reiki is consistently taught not merely as a hands-on healing method, but as a Way—a lived spiritual practice. Reiki is something we do, something we walk, something that gradually shapes our consciousness. And at the heart of that…
Over the years, I’ve noticed a quiet shift in how people arrive at Reiki. In the beginning, students want clarity. They want to know what is happening, whether they are doing it correctly, and how to make it work better. Questions are natural, and they have their place. Explanations help orient the mind while the…
Why I Am Naming This Lineage Now Reiki has always evolved through human hands. It was shaped by the people who practiced it, the cultures that received it, and the lineages that carried it across oceans. When I chose to name the Koshin Reiki Style, I did so to honor the transmission that shaped my…
Most Reiki students learn a simple tale: Mikao Usui fasted on Kurama mountain, received a revelation, and a healing system was born in a flash of light. But the real history, the one revealed through the work of Reiki historian Justin B. Stein, PhD, is far more interesting. It’s more human, more complex, and—ironically—much truer…